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Coping with the feline stars of the Teso Dos Bichos episode proved difficult. The script called for a set full of scruffy animals. But getting 20 specially-dirtied cats into a bunch took so long that most of them had licked themselves clean again.
Personal Magazine discussing The X-Files, January 26, 1997 (x)(x)
Sketchbook
I’m sure my readers have a big question in their minds: where’d you go this time, Leia? We actually had a tiny massive crisis at the Daily Trigleph office. It all started when our main sponsor, Mr. Marx, reported to us that he may have to divert some of the funding he donated to the paper to find his cat, Julius Catstantine the Third. Losing Mr. Marx’s help would gut us hard, so all affiliates working out of the office were asked to help find Catstantine, including me.
When I brought it up to Ludger, he was gung-ho to help cause that’s actually his grandpa’s cat! Maybe I should’ve figured that out cuz their last names are both Kresnik, but we got other priorities! (ノ*°▽°*) Apparently Catstantine ended up in a fellow flatmate’s apartment (she’s got so many cats, one odd one out just blends in), but the minute we opened the door, they all ran out! Now our 1 cat problem got 100x worse with 101 cats we had to find!
They all stayed in the country, but I didn’t realize how big Elympios really is when we took at least 10 train rides a day to grab a cat, bring them home, and then head back again just in case there were more in town. How some of the cats managed to hop on a train and go to Marksburg or Drellin... I can only wonder. ┐(￣ヘ￣;)┌
ANYWAY, this story does have a happy ending: we caught all the cats, and we found Julius--the cat, not Ludger’s brother--lurking around Marksburg near some fish crates! Ludger took an honorary photo once I grabbed him.
NGL it is a bit weird just how much this cat looks like Julius. I didn’t even know they make pet safe hair dye, plus imagine the styling it takes to get that perfect tuft of blonde hair! What matters though is we’re back in action! The goofs and gaffs haven’t ended!
Kittens are like big butts. I like having them in my lap but they're difficult to manage in the back seat of a car.
Why are words so hard?
“The arm chair. The chair of the arm. exasperated noise The arm of the chair” - me, trying to tell the cat to stop putting her tail in a crevice if she wants to swish
Giving Mitya his pills is more stressful for me than him, I’m convinced. He’s not eating much yet, so there’s no hope in hiding it in his food, and I use the pill gun because I just cannot bring myself to shove a pill into his throat with my damn fingers. He doesn’t struggle at all and you think you’re home free, but then he just triumphantly spits it back at you. He would make a great non-compliant patient at a mental hospital.
So as of last night I have turned into the go- to angry cat wrangler. Which is a type of art form that requires reflex, patience, confidence, and accuracy. No joke. Basically one of the other techs took out a cat suspected of having a uti, felt the cat was going to hit its thresh hold, and put it into a small cage. I heard her say "oh shit" as soon as she did so, the cat with ears pinned back was going to be next to impossible to get out. She was pissed. The bad thing about small cages is you basically have to put half your upper body into it, have restricted movement, and the cat can easily get your face. I had it happen, not fun. Which is why I always put cats who have potential back into their carriers- you can always take the carrier to the surgery room where the cat can't get away, and take apart the carrier to get the cat out in a calm manner. Or not even take it out at all, just pin it to the bottom or the carrier, like I like to do ( with cat gloves and towels, mind you). So she tried getting the cat out with no luck, I tired just throwing a towel over it and grabbing it with cat gloves but the cat tried to dart around me so I shut the door. Next step, force it back in the carrier. Some cats will run back into the carrier, while others like this cat you have to get it in the corner with the carrier door semi closed, so when you push the carrier back the door pushes on the back of the cat and forces it into the carrier. She was an asshole but I got her in, and let her chill in surgery before taking the carrier apart, pinning her down as my coworker gave her a shot of sedatives. I love dexdomitor sooooo much, it most of the time makes the animal completely handable. I was able to get a rather large fishhook out of an aggressive pit bull's lip by myself after we gave it dexdomitor. We were able to get an x-ray of the kitty's bladder revieling a large bladder stone, the vet was able to do a physical, we gave her some pain meds, reversed the sedative and sent her home. She'll have to go to her regular vet in the morning to discuss treatment, but for tonight- she's stable. Personally, I prefer chihuahua wrangling lol.
